“Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.”

“It had been so many years since Charlotte had experienced the sensation of being held in someone's arms. But tonight, between the music and the moon and the unaccountable black magic of the Southern air, she was embraced in the spirit of everything that was good in this world. And she felt free.”

“She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation”

“I remember reading a fascinating article in the New York Times Magazine once where this guy said... Every woman has the exact love life she wants”

“It's the closest place to nowhere that she can think of. And nowhere is exactly where she wants to be today.”

“It was just one of the many absurdities she discovered being married to Alexander Cameron: having everything she had ever wanted yet having nothing at all.”